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Binned angular analysis of $B^{0} \to K^{*0} \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ with LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2024-05-20 v1

Abstract

The analysis of bs+b\to s\ell^+\ell^- flavor-changing neutral current decays is a powerful test of the Standard Model (SM). Due to the strong suppression of these modes in the SM, potential New Physics contributions can have a significant impact on the measured physics observables. The angular analysis of B0K0μ+μB^{0} \to K^{*0} \mu^{+} \mu^{-} decays gives access to optimized angular observables, which are less dependent on hadronic form factors than for example branching fraction measurements. The angular observables are extracted in bins of the invariant dimuon mass squared, q2q^2, making the analysis model-independent with respect to any assumptions about the shape of the signal distribution in q2q^2. Previous binned measurements of the B0K0μ+μB^{0} \to K^{*0} \mu^{+} \mu^{-} angular observables by LHCb were in tension with the SM at the level of 3.33.3 standard deviations (σ\sigma). These proceedings present the ongoing effort to update the binned angular analysis to include the full Run 1 and Run 2 data sample of LHCb.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10882,
  title  = {Binned angular analysis of $B^{0} \to K^{*0} \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ with LHCb},
  author = {Leon Carus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10882},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Contribution to the 2024 Electroweak session of the 58th Rencontres de Moriond. 4 pages, 7 figures